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    Power Transformer Rating

    A transformer running at rated temperatures for their entire life may have a lifespan of only 10 years. Sizing slightly larger can dramatically increase lifespan. One consideration is the lifetime cost of losses based on the anticipate generation profile. The ideal design for a generator that...
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    Transmission Line Geometry and Impedance/Losses

    Rather than 5 phase, the 5F tower has a double bundle in the center and single conductors at the edges. Seems like basically two separate circuits with the middle phase mounted on the same insulator. Something like this: A------B ---CC--- B------A
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    Transmission Line Geometry and Impedance/Losses

    Larger diameter wires, more wires per phase, and tighter phase spacing all reduce impedance. Equilateral triangles will have lower impedance than flat arrangements.
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    35kV Line Reactors

    The impedance of 270 ft of bus may be negligible compared to the transformer impedance.
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    Inrush current of transformer

    I am used to thinking about a system than has 115/15 kV substation transformer that feeds several circuits that each have dozens of 15 kV/240 V service transformers. Energizing one of the 15 V circuits causes inrush to the 15 kV/240 V service transformers, which is in turn fed by the 115/15 kV...
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    Tie Breaker in Series and Bus duct

    Seconding crshears suggestion to ensure you design the tie with adequate isolation points to allow for maintenance of either bus without taking both busses out of service. Beyond that, the second tie breaker adds very little value.
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    Electrical Mystery

    Any chance this is part of a multiway switch circuit for a hallway light, where the other switch changed status during your testing?
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    Two 250 VDC 1200A rectifiers feeding multiple crane rails - is it OK to put the outputs in parallel ?

    Do you need the load split equally? Or are these located at opposite ends of building crane rail to provide reduce voltage drop?
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    UHV/EHV Cables in aerial rack distance to Coke/Blast Furnace Gas

    Is that a gas pipeline feeding the blast furnace? Or exhaust gases from the blast furnace? Would the area be explosive (i.e. classified)?
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    Custom ONAF2 Rating

    Utilities often have transformer ratings that take into account the expected duty cycle of a project. A 12 hour duty cycle of 325 MW discharge for 4 hours followed by 200 MW of charging for 8 hours should allow for a somewhat smaller transformer as compared to a constant load. Has the ISO...
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    Custom ONAF2 Rating

    Substation transformers are custom built, so there is a little bit more flexibility with the impedance of substation transformers as compared to distribution transformers. A friendly manufacturer's sales person could give you some guidance as to how much it would cost for a slightly higher...
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    Custom ONAF2 Rating

    On possible alternative is to ask them for calculated ratings under alternate operating conditions. For example, I have asked vendors to calculate nonstandard conditions such as: an ambient adjusted rating for a zero degrees C ambient a rating assuming the long time overloading parameters in...
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    MV Switchgear - Switching multiple sources

    Yes, this quite common.
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    Internal Diesel Storage Tank dimensions

    As LittleInch pointed out, consider the refueling logistics when determining the appropriate size for the new tank. If your requirement is for 24 hours of actual run time, it may be helpful to size the the tank to allow for at least 6 months of routine testing loads in addition to the fuel to...
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    Probability Distribution of Transformer Inrush

    The typical inrush curves for transformers assume an infinite bus approximation. For an islanded system with a transformer larger than the generator, that will be a rather poor assumption. I am rather confused that the links suggest that 0.5% probability means something will never occur. If...
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